Passions and Evil in Kant’s Philosophy

• Autores: Maria Borges
• Localización: Kant on Emotions: Critical Essays in the Contemporary Context / coord. por Mariannina Failla, Nuria Sánchez Madrid, 2021, ISBN 9783110720716, págs. 69-85
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this chapter, I aim to elucidate the relationship between passions and evil in Kant’s philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the text Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, in which Kant claims that both affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because they hinder the sovereignty of reason. I argue that passions, however, represent a greater threat to pure reason than affects. Next, I relate affects and passions to the varying degrees of the propensity to evil in the Religion. Finally, I analyse the idea of an ethical community as a means of overcoming evil, which goes beyond the political and anthropological solutions offered by Kant.